What is your assessment of the Indian Navy?
Short answerThe assessment is favorable, particularly on professionalism, growing capability, and indigenization, while recognizing the funding and institutional problems that every navy faces.
NotesThe favorable assessment draws partly on experience working with Indian naval personnel and teaching officers at King's. Their professionalism and the navy's growing capability receive praise. Indigenization attracts particular interest, alongside domestic yards and supporting naval infrastructure. The discussion also stresses that every navy faces problems involving funding, infrastructure, or internal preferences between service branches. Respect for a navy should allow those institutional difficulties to be discussed.